Held Settles With Inteplast Re: Vinyl/PVC Gloves

Dr. Anthony Held has reached a settlement with Inteplast in regards to alleged Proposition 65 violations.  Held alleged that Inteplast did not provide consumers with health hazard warnings for its vinyl gloves, which allegedly contained the phthalate chemical DINP.  DINP is known to the State of California to cause cancer.

Inteplast has agreed to pay civil penalties and reformulate its gloves to be free of DINP, or else provide consumers with a Proposition 65 warnings.  Held has agreed to waive a portion of a civil fine should Inteplast provide certification by October 15, 2016 that all vinyl/PVC gloves sold in California are DINP-free.

For more details and to read the settlement itself, please see the case summary on our website: Held v. Inteplast Group Corporation

The Chanler Group represents citizen enforcers who, acting in the public interest, commence actions against businesses offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first providing the health hazard warning required by Proposition 65. Citizen enforcers bringing Proposition 65 actions in the public interest may obtain a Court Judgment imposing civil penalties, an injunction requiring reformulation of products, and/or provision of health hazard warnings